Re: log file permissions? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: log file permissions?
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Msg-id 7816.1174062107@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to log file permissions?  (Gerardo Herzig <gherzig@fmed.uba.ar>)
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Gerardo Herzig <gherzig@fmed.uba.ar> writes:
> Hi dudes. I have my pg log file rotation configured so i have a 
> psql_`today`.log. The thing is, can i configure postgres so the file 
> permissions (today is 600) could by 640, so developers could login and 
> tailf the logfile (without using the postgres superuser, course)?

You'd have to change the code --- the syslogger process inherits umask
077 from the postmaster.
        regards, tom lane


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